Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, Tractarian
16 September -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Pastors, page 483
Edward Pusey was born in 1800 and educated at Oxford, where
he became a Fellow of
Oriel College in
1823. He became an expert in biblical languages and
criticism and in 1828 he was appointed Regius Professor of
Hebrew in Oxford, the same year he was ordained. His
patristic studies and firm adherence to a Catholic
interpretation of doctrine made him one of the leaders of
the Oxford Movement. He was significant in encouraging the
revival of Religious Life within the Church of England and
was a noted preacher. His austere way of life made him much
revered by his contemporaries and they founded
Pusey
House and Library in Oxford in his memory, following his
death on this day in 1882.